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July 20, 2026
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday determined that a housing court was wrong to offset attorney fees awarded to a landlord against fees granted to the tenant on the other side of a housing dispute, finding the awards should be entered as separate judgments to preserve the lawyers' rights.
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July 20, 2026
Attorneys general in 20 states have raised alarms over the U.S. Department of Justice's "unprecedented effort" to halt a disciplinary case in D.C. against former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Clark, warning the Trump administration is trying to "upend a centuries-old system of attorney discipline" and put federal government lawyers beyond the reach of local disciplinary authorities.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal court issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, preventing Paramount Skydance from moving ahead with its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as state enforcers challenge the deal.
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July 17, 2026
Consumers accusing American Airlines and JetBlue of entering into a pact to allegedly increase fares and reduce flight choices have asked a New York federal judge to certify their narrowed class definition.
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July 17, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney reactions to the structural issues at the old Pfizer building in New York, a Big Law partner's view of manufactured housing in light of the new federal housing law, and new tactics in data center development as certain states clamp down.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge said Friday the Trump administration cannot rely on a shift in policy to retroactively change the terms of already awarded grants in order to justify canceling them.
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July 17, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Friday said a gun and drugs found in a car after police repeatedly searched and pressured the driver for the key must be thrown out as evidence in a case that one of the justices, in a concurrence, says highlights the value of police-worn body cameras.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 17, 2026
Nearly 20 states have told an Oregon federal judge they want in on a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to block land-based wind projects in the U.S. from moving forward.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to induce them to buy a drug that treats eye inflammation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
The American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health organizations on Friday defended before the First Circuit a Massachusetts judge's decision to block Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine policy committee appointments, countering claims that the judge overreached.
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July 17, 2026
As a lifelong "off and on" viewer of "Jeopardy!," regular trivia-goer and insatiable consumer of knowledge, Foley & Lardner LLP associate Lea James told Law360 she had the chance last month to live out a once-in-a-lifetime experience on the iconic game show.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.
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July 17, 2026
The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.
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July 17, 2026
A fishing boat captain who appeared on the Massachusetts-based reality show "Wicked Tuna" is asking a court to block his parents from selling the boat he used on the show, saying they're trying to cut him out of his interest in that vessel, three others and a Key West, Florida, home they've already sold, according to a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday.
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July 17, 2026
Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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July 16, 2026
Drugmakers like Novartis, former federal judges, a startup group and others have urged the Federal Circuit to reject calls to shift liability in a COVID-19 vaccine patent suit against Moderna to the federal government, saying that doing so would undermine patent rights.
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July 16, 2026
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday announced she will file legislation capping the resale price of concert tickets and cracking down on fraud in the secondary ticket marketplace.
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July 16, 2026
Two Goulston & Storrs PC directors who jumped to Troutman Pepper Locke LLP were stiffed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation in retaliation for leaving, according to a suit filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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July 16, 2026
Walgreens says administrators of the Massachusetts Medicaid program cannot rely on drug prices negotiated with pharmacy benefit managers to determine reimbursement rates, in a challenge to the state's effort to claw back $242,000 in alleged overpayments.
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July 16, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday threw out the bulk of a proposed class action alleging that Dorel Juvenile Group Inc. sold unsafe child car seats, saying most of the claims fail because the parents leading the suit didn't show Dorel was aware of the defect prior to their purchase.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security essentially ducked an order to restore legal status to hundreds of thousands of migrants whose parole was terminated en masse last year, a Massachusetts federal judge has found, issuing "limited" sanctions against the government.
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July 16, 2026
A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, putting the case in front of the same judge hearing challenges from consumers and the Writers Guild of America.
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July 16, 2026
Diagnostics testing company Labcorp will pay $14.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it submitted unnecessary Medicare claims for urine drug tests, the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office announced.
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July 15, 2026
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.